Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas

From Post-Revolutionary Mexico to fin de siglo Mexamerica

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by Susan Dever

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Mexico

Keywords

Mexico, politics, United States

Publishing date

2003

Publisher

State University of New York Press

Collection

SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 273 pages
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-7914-5764-8
978-0-7914-5764-1

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Book Presentation:
Explores issues of representation and rebellion in Mexican and Mexican American cinema.

Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas looks at representation and rebellion in times of national uncertainty. Moving from mid-century Mexican cinema to recent films staged in Los Angeles and Mexico City, Susan Dever analyzes melodrama's double function as a genre and as a sensibility, revealing coincidences between movie morals and political pieties in the civic-minded films of Emilio Fernández, Matilde Landeta, Allison Anders, and Marcela Fernández Violante. These filmmakers' rationally and emotionally engaged cinema—offering representations of indigenous peoples and poor urban women who alternately endorsed "civilizing" projects and voiced resistance to such totalization—both interrupts and sustains fictions of national coherence in an increasingly transnational world.

About the Author:
Susan Dever is Associate Professor and Chair of Media Arts at the University of New Mexico.

See the publisher website: State University of New York Press